Fibre-Ribbon Switching for Application in Core-Edge Storage Area Networks

Author

Zhang, Fan ; Collings, Neil ; Crossland, Bill

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng., Cambridge Univ.

Volume

4

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

48

Lastpage

51

Abstract

The design and construction of a shutter-based optical fibre-ribbon switch has been reported in [F.Zhang, N. Collins, W.A. Crossland, et al., (2005)] previously. In this paper, a typical application of such fibre-ribbon switch in core-edge storage area networks (SAN) is introduced. The core-edge SAN was modelled and simulated with self-similar traffic sourced from real gigabit ethernet network traces and storage system traces. The simulation investigated the relations between the spatial light modulator´s (SLM) reconfigure time, cell size, inter-switch link (ISL) speed, channel number of the switched fibre ribbon with the data loss rate and the mean delay. The results show that compared with single fibre switching which is normally supported by current SAN switches, fibre-ribbon switching improves performance greatly with a simple configuration

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical fibre LAN; optical fibres; optical switches; storage area networks; telecommunication channels; telecommunication traffic; core-edge storage area networks; fibre-ribbon switch; fibre-ribbon switching; gigabit Ethernet network traces; inter-switch link; self-similar traffic; shutter-based optical switch; single fibre switching; spatial light modulator; storage system traces; Bandwidth; Electronic mail; Fabrics; Network topology; Optical fiber networks; Optical switches; Peer to peer computing; Storage area networks; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; ISL over-subscription; core-edge; fibre-ribbon switching; storage area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nottingham

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0235-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0236-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2006.248493

Filename

4013853